Where all the ladies at? A belated review of “Art & Copy”, Part 2

by Farrah Bostic August 20, 2010 images

Remember how I said in the last post that I had two responses (see how I give you credit for being a true and Constant Reader)? The thing that troubled me about Art & Copy was the thing that troubled my own career in advertising, and so profoundly affected (though I did not fully realize [...]

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I loved you once: A belated review of “Art & Copy”, Part 1

by Farrah Bostic August 20, 2010 images

I finally got around to watching Art & Copy the other night, and had two responses. OMG, I <3 THIS!!! I was flooded with remembrances of what I once loved about advertising, why I wanted to be a writer, why I admired the agencies and creative people I did. I think I was only vaguely [...]

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Cheap Shot

by Farrah Bostic August 20, 2010 images

Saw this today at the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press website.  (Yes, sometimes I love to look at bar charts. I find them mysterious – they mean, after all, nothing, and yet signify so much.) Surely this is not breaking news?

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Bullies

by Farrah Bostic August 16, 2010 stuff

There is a sensation that I sometimes experience, maybe it’s familiar to you?  The sides of my tongue pressed against the inside of my molars, my jaw hovering and semi-clenched, my neck straining to keep me out of a hunch.  These are the physical symptoms of keeping my mouth firmly shut. Now, I can talk [...]

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How to Tell a Big Truth

by Farrah Bostic August 4, 2010 storytelling

In the spirit and style of any self-respecting talks-to-herself-looney, I thought I’d go ahead and try to answer my own question.  How do you tell a Big Truth?  A truth that requires you to stop believing a whole lot of other things in order to believe this new replacement thing… A few possible tactics spring [...]

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